/lit/ - Literature

I've had my fun with Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, and all that, but it's time for my mind to mature.
When will you stop worrying and join me, anon?

I don't see much love here for Wittgenstein!
Why so, anon?
Not our guy anymore?

>>17449774
Sylvia Plath looks a lot like Wittgenstein

If orangutans could write, we would probably not understand them.

Do I need to read anyone else first?

If I like Kierkegaard will I like this man?

Is he the next logical step after the big K? I know that Wittgenstein was a fan of Kierkegaard and they both seem like similarly idiosyncratic, self-contained thinkers.

>>12293868
The only relevant philosopher since kant

>>12287926
Well, they aren't wrong. Non analytic philosophy is just word games or pop sociology at this point

Wittgenstein

>>11709884
eyebags always intimiate brainlets

>inherit a trillion dollars
>don't give a shit
>almost kill yourself like your 87 brothers and sisters
>forcibly inject yourself into the lectures and office of the worlds most prominent living philosopher
>dominate them in short order
>volunteer for service during WW1 and win multiple commendations
>write one single work which is still to this day regarded as the greatest work of Philosophy
>hit worthless cunt dumbass shithead kids
>generally be regarded as the greatest philosopher of all time by many and absolutely the greatest and possibly only philsopher of the last 100 years
plus i probably forgot a few things

who the fuck could ever compare to based witty? certainly nobody in philosophy. you'd have to go outside the field to find someone who could best him - e.g. Von Neumann